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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/10/01123/5422/535/513052

Deniers Descending to Outright Deceit
by A Siegel

Fri May 09, 2008 at 09:16:46 PM PDT

"To support misrepresenting and demeaning Gore, BMI used the tactic of splicing together several different segments from the interview in an audio clip to accompany their article. As Brad writes at the Wonkroom:

In fact, the audio clip has been doctored and the conclusion that "Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a ‘Consequence’ of Global Warming" is false:

Gore Says Myanmar Cyclone Not A Consequence Of Global Warming. The BMI headline ignores that Gore says in the interview that "any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming – we’ve always had hurricanes.

Gore Properly Described Relationship Between Storms And Global Warming. In the interview, Gore discussed Nargis and the devastating storms that struck China in 2006 (Typhoon Saomai) and Bangladesh in 2007 (Cyclone Sidr). He goes on to say that "the emerging consensus" among climate scientists is that the "the trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming, and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful."

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